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  2. List of most luminous stars - Wikipedia

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    The first list shows a few of the known stars with an estimated luminosity of 1 million L ☉ or greater, including the stars in open cluster, OB association and H II region. The majority of stars thought to be more than 1 million L ☉ are shown, but the list is incomplete. The second list gives some notable stars for the purpose of comparison.

  3. Stellar (payment network) - Wikipedia

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    The nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation was created in collaboration with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and the project officially launched that July. Stellar received $3 million in seed funding from Stripe. [6] [7] Stellar was released as a decentralized payment network and protocol with a native currency, stellar. At its launch, the ...

  4. List of brightest stars - Wikipedia

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    Stellar brightness is based on the apparent visual magnitude as perceived by the human eye, from the brightest stars of 1st magnitude to the faintest at 6th magnitude. Since the invention of the optical telescope and the documenting of binary stars and multiple star systems, stellar brightness could be expressed as either individual (separate ...

  5. B-type main-sequence star - Wikipedia

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    This class of stars was introduced with the Harvard sequence of stellar spectra and published in the Revised Harvard photometry catalogue. The definition of type B-type stars was the presence of non-ionized helium lines with the absence of singly ionized helium in the blue-violet portion of the spectrum. All of the spectral classes, including ...

  6. List of star extremes - Wikipedia

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    A star is a massive luminous spheroid astronomical object made of plasma that is held together by its own gravity.Stars exhibit great diversity in their properties (such as mass, volume, velocity, stage in stellar evolution, and distance from Earth) and some of the outliers are so disproportionate in comparison with the general population that they are considered extreme.

  7. Stellar Lumens Can Move Much Higher, Which Should ... - AOL

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    With the top-tier cryptocurrencies moving into seemingly absurd valuations, the risk-reward profile should start favoring lower-priced, overlooked alternative cryptos like Stellar Lumens (CCC:XLM ...

  8. Apparent magnitude - Wikipedia

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    the brightest stellar event in recorded history (7200 light-years away) [38] −6.80: Alpha Centauri A: seen from Proxima Centauri b [39] −6.00: The total integrated magnitude of the night sky (incl. airglow) seen from Earth measuring about 0.002 lux −6.00: Crab Supernova of 1054: seen from Earth (6500 light-years away) [40] −5.90 ...

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